WEARABLE DEVICE DEVELOPMENT CAPABILITIES
Wearable technology applications are extensive, spanning medical and health monitoring, entertainment, personal and industrial applications.
Wearables often squeeze advanced sensors, low-power electronics, wireless connectivity, and tiny batteries into a compact and elegant form factor. These products are subject to additional environmental challenges inherently associated with being worn daily on the body, including resistance to water and sweat, vibration, and impact.
In medical wearables, there are additional regulatory requirements that must be satisfied. Simplexity’s ISO 13485:2016 certified compliant quality management system ensures rigorous design and development of devices that are safe for their intended use.
Common Challenges and Needs That Bring Wearables Device Clients to Simplexity:
- Product architecture expertise for new wearable platforms
- Technology feasibility evaluation and technical risk resolution
- Proof-of-concept devices for technology demonstration and usability evaluations
- Comprehensive program planning, phase-gate product development process, risk assessment, development budget, product cost estimation
- Critical Performance Metrics (CPM) identification and monitoring
- Cost reduction and design optimization for next-generation products
- Characterization tools to execute design of experiments during device development
- New Product Introduction (NPI): build planning and coordination, contract manufacturing selection, tool strategy, test planning, quality engineering and design for manufacturability
- Conversion of proof-of-concept designs to manufacturable designs (design for manufacturability)
- Development under quality system design controls
- Design and test for EMI/EMC certification (FCC and IEC 60601)
- Production test and assembly tools
- Miniaturization of electro-mechanical designs
- Low-power electrical design and accompanying firmware
Simplexity Wearables Expertise
- Device architecture and development strategies
- Integration of aesthetic and functional requirements
- Sensor and data processing algorithms
- Miniaturization, weight reduction and sealing
- Low-power design and battery life optimization
- ISO 13485:2016 certification for medical product design and development
- NSF-audited certified Quality Management System
- New Product Introduction (NPI)
- Design for Manufacturing (DfM) and Design for Assembly (DfA)
- Value-engineering
- Risk management
- Wireless connectivity
Supported Product Categories:
Simplexity’s large, fast-ramp team of expert product engineers and project managers, has worked
with clients to design wearable products and systems in the following categories:
- Health monitors
- Smart shoes and clothing
- AR/VR devices
- Smart watches
- Exoskeletons
- Wearable imaging devices
- Logistics and warehouse data tracking and marking devices
- Body cameras
- Energy harvesting
- Critical care field communication
Product Development Competencies:
As an engineering and technology-focused design company, we have assembled the best design team
in the industry around core competencies for wearable device development. These include:
Product Design and Development
- Compact and miniaturized electrical and mechanical designs
- Sensors and sensor data processing algorithms
- Printed Circuit Assembly (PCA) and flexible PCA design
- Firmware and software design, implementation and integration
- Low-power electronics
- Optical and opto-mechanical systems
- Magnetic design: solenoids, alternators, motors
- Design For Manufacturability (DfM) and Design for Assembly (DfA)
- ISO-13485:2016 certified quality management system (medical devices)
Electro-mechanical Packaging
- Comfort
- Low profile
- Advanced molding of plastics and metals
- Water-resistant, waterproof, biocompatible or built for rugged environments
- Body adhesives
- User Experience (UX) & Industrial Design (ID)
Power
- Low power design and battery life optimization
- Battery selection and management: Li-ion/Li-Polymer, thin-film, alkaline, NiHM
- Rechargeable/replaceable/single use
Communications
- Ethernet
- Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)
- Bluetooth
- WiFi
- Cellular
- RFID/Near Field Communication (NFC)
- Thread, Zigbee
- ISM bands with custom protoco
Security
- Data encryption for communications and storage
- Secure Over-The-Air (OTA) firmware updates
Why Simplexity?
Wearable technology developers and leaders choose Simplexity Product Development to accelerate and de-risk their product development. Since 2005, we have been a trusted partner in product commercialization, with a depth of expertise in product architecture, mechatronics, and complete system design for cost-effective manufacturing. Simplexity engineers hold over 200 patents collectively.
Simplexity has considerable experience with and understanding of the wearables development space and the unique requirements that must be met to achieve success. If you are designing an innovative product and either don’t have the team you need nor the time to hire, Simplexity’s flexible engineering services and full product development engineering team are here to help. Let our experienced team of mechanical, electrical, firmware, software, quality, and systems engineers turn your promising prototypes into market-ready products.
Contact us to learn more about our wearable device development capabilities. We look forward to partnering with your company’s core technology experts, developing wearable technologies with complex electromechanical systems that meet stringent safety and durability requirements, standing up to the trials of day-to-day life on the body while meeting manufacturability and cost targets.